The sources you cited simply document that American birthrates are declining, which no one disputes.
The question is “Why?”
The one source you do cite for a ‘why’ is a columnist — A COLUMNIST — who asked around about why some people are or aren’t having babies.
It’s nothing more than anecdotal information, and you would be laughed out of any elementary statistics class for trying to draw conclusions from it.
On the other hand, the cold hard indisputable numbers of infertility rates are tallied up when couples seek treatment.
In the face of those staggering numbers, how can you continue to assert that Americans aren’t having kids because they want more money? Or they’re selfish? Or something about careers? THEY’RE GOING TO THE DOCTOR SO THEY CAN HAVE KIDS. In droves. In the millions. They’re not having kids because they demonstrably CAN’T.
It’s a popular social meme right now for frustrated couples with children resentful of couples without to attribute a childless state to selfishness about money and careers and such. If you’re going to plant your flag in that camp, you better come with a refutation of the indisputable, quantifiable evidence that belies your premise.
You are awfully edgy about this subject, to the point of hostility. It seems you have a problem seeing the fact that we have selfish generations of younger people who want nothing to do with having babies. To blame it all on infertility is ridiculous, especially when you consider our narcissistic culture of death (environmental nutcases who push the lie of “overpopulation” and the lie that humans are a “cancer” on the planet, for instance).
Maybe you have a problem with infertility, but infertility is not the case with the majority of people who choose not to have babies or choose to abort them.